{"id":106138,"date":"2021-02-02T18:07:53","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T18:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/?p=106138"},"modified":"2021-02-02T18:07:53","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T18:07:53","slug":"oxford-says-covid-19-vaccine-76-effective-for-3-months-after-one-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/markets\/oxford-says-covid-19-vaccine-76-effective-for-3-months-after-one-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford says COVID-19 vaccine 76% effective for 3 months after one shot"},"content":{"rendered":"<figcaption>FILE PHOTO: A vial of the Oxford University\/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine is seen at the Lochee Health Centre in Dundee, Scotland, Britain January 4, 2021. Andy Buchanan\/Pool via REUTERS<\/figcaption><p>LONDON (Reuters) &#8211; The COVID-19 vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca has 76% efficacy against symptomatic infection for three months after a single dose, with greater effectiveness when a second is given later, a study showed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Oxford University said the findings of the pre-print paper, which had not been peer-reviewed, supported Britain\u2019s decision to extend the interval between initial and booster doses of the shot to 12 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Britain has decided to give as many people as possible some protection by lengthening the amount of time between initial shots and booster shots of COVID-19 vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>AstraZeneca has welcomed the move, saying flexibility to extend the time between doses is the best strategy for the shot.<\/p>\n<p>The results, gathered from trials in Britain, Brazil and South Africa, indicated some protection was given after one shot and that immune responses were boosted with a longer interval to the second dose among participants aged 18 to 55 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVaccine efficacy after a single standard dose of vaccine from day 22 to day 90 post vaccination was 76%, and modelled analysis indicated that protection did not wane during this initial 3 month period,\u201d Oxford academics said.<\/p>\n<p>The paper said that vaccine efficacy was 82.4% with 12 or more weeks to the second dose, compared to 54.9% for those where the booster was given under 6 weeks after the first dose.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-health-coronavirus-astrazeneca\/oxford-says-covid-19-vaccine-76-effective-for-3-months-after-one-shot-idUSKBN2A22CV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FILE PHOTO: A vial of the Oxford University\/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine is seen at the Lochee Health Centre in Dundee, Scotland, Britain January 4, 2021. 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